florida, that's a radical insurgency, mark lamond hill, and it's time to get up front right here on out 0. ah, the fight till the end ukrainian forces ignore russia's deadline to surrender the strategic pool. a city of not a pole hoping to rise from the ashes. ukrainians returned to their homes destroyed by russian troops pulling out the areas near key. ah, hello money inside is the sound. is there a lie from dough or so coming up, trying to calm, rising public, angus or lunk, as president appoints a new cabinet to tackle the worst economic crisis in decades. john is economy grows higher than expected. despite stiff coven 19 restrictions for the outlook is likely

to be weighed down by continuing lockdown. russia has carried out missile attacks in ports of weston and southern ukraine. 5 rockets hit the city of live, emergency services have rush to the scene. there was no immediate information about casualties or damage. let's go straight to a correspondent, hold that meet, who joins us from live. to tell us more about these drawings, did you hear or see them yourself? i actually only heard the air siren about an hour and a half ago. so maybe a little bit more than that. i have not heard the explosions, but according to the mayor of live eve, there were 5 strikes that targeted civilian infrastructure. and i'm going to move out of the picture a little bit. or you can see that blue of black smoke there. that's in the

direction of the train station from what we end is then at this point, the train station itself was not hit, nor were there railways, but somewhat somewhat some think in the, in the vicinity of that we do not have also any information about of for our districts, we did see another blue of smoke a bit further to decide it's gone now, but we do not know what happened in that area, nor do we have any reports of casualties at this stage. now, liver is on the west of the country. it's a city where a lot of the people fleeing a, you know, other battled areas of ukraine come to on their way out. it's also where all the foreign embassies have relocated to ahead of the war. so it's certainly a city that is quite important at this stage or to make the war operate is school

is kind of a back fall is where a lot of humanitarian aid comes in. so any kind of disruption to the city would have a huge impact on, on the rest of the country, especially on those who are trying to flee other areas like will you are mentioning more, you pull or heart keep or even keep as still so certainly of this is a head that will have some repercussions on the people who are here and who thought they believed they would be safe here. ok for now, what i've done hamid there for us in livermore. thank you for that update. meanwhile, elsewhere in ukraine, soldiers have ignored a russian deadline to lay down arms in maria pole. moscow says its forces have almost seized the poor city in what would be the biggest prize of the nearly 2 month war, tory gates and the reports marry. a pole is a city almost completely destroyed and from where thousands of civilians have been

unable to escape. the last major battle is happening here at a giant soviet built factory in an industrial district near remaining. so the occurring in the army and large group of civilians are basically encircled by the russian forces. they continue their struggle. but it seems from the way russian army behaves in mario vote, they decided to race the seizure to the ground at any cost. bodies lie on the streets in the besieged post city, ukrainian forces ignored a russian ultimatum to surrender by one p. m. local time on sunday, ukraine's prime minister says its forces will fight to the end. the outcome will likely affect talks to resolve the wool. the air positions are all in go in the opposite direction. out rush captures, marable because lensky made it very clear that of russia carries at another massacre in mary. apple was comparable to what was on boucher on the remaining

forces. then they'll be beasley a dead stop vertigo. she agency grinning. foreign minister said that there's really been no dialogue between ukraine, russia over the vasta, 48 hours. russia's own slow continues elsewhere in the east. this is the aftermath of yet another russia missiles strike in hockey eve. this may be russian speaking city. ukraine. second largest, has suffered some of the was shelling since rushes, evasion more than 7 weeks of the paramedics treat, the injured but the danger isn't over yet. ah, he crane says russia has stepped off its attacks in the region as its forces prepare for a new offensive in the east. the president zalinski says he remains steadfast in

his determination not to concede any territory. victoria gates and be al jazeera on the scale of destruction as becoming evident in some ukrainian regions, falling rushes withdrawal, but so sad of as it said, to nave. one of the hottest hit cities by russian forces and talk to the residents who have rebuilding their lives. this is all that remains of 8th year old hannah's house. she lives in the neighbourhood of barbara pizza on the outskirts of to him here. they mine you. in the hospital nearly there is no water, electricity, and gas it. no one comes here and asked, no one does anything to, and she's not the only one to have lost her home. her neighbor alexey said other shows us what was once he is pride and joy. all that's left or the ashes of a previous life. his home was 1st hit by russian bombs in the early days of the war

. and again, on the 10th of march, a letter from june. we had a live bottle, keeley, now i have nothing here like a ceiling and flows of burned. but the most painful thing is that all my memorable documents have burnt. we keep, i didn't need them, but i kept them as souvenirs. i'm retired pilot, and i kept on my pilot log, sir. despite having lost all his possessions, he looks to the future with hope that will present the roku. did his lawyer come back in 2 years? i will rebuild everything. we will have a barbecue together. can you go? chad and he woke up to the rocket attacks on the 1st day of the war when russian troops crossed the border from bella, rose despite being besieged, it did not surrender. and finally, on the 30th of march, the russian forces retreated from the region. by chance, he has paid a high price on the answer. lana's home was here 3 times, and now they are trying to salvage whatever remains. oh,

don't worry for your little said the montage banner if it will do me. but there we are killing in this mass under it tells me what can we do wanna we dont need help but others do up in law prohibits somebody actually swept on it as identically. you see how our russian brothers have help us? the palmer, let's see for the la la la la. we met hannah again in a nearby shelter. dot com. when you book us only can you not the here showing me my room already. it is a nice room. i will stay here as long as i can. i don't have a choice yet, isn't why you continue. gaskets included roygenia in our center was created for children with psycho your logical difficulties when the bombing started, many people came here as they were looking for shelter. we became a shelter for those who needed a total. his 2nd little huge, skip going for hannah. it might not be an ideal set up, but at least she now has a roof over her head. not only this rehab center for children has changed after the

war in ukraine, civilians are now become frontline workers helping to rebuild the country. and they say in this process, they are more united than ever rescue said that al jazeera chem here a center salon can now when new ministers have been torn in 2 weeks off to be into a cabinet resigned to come and take government protests. there are some new and younger faces drafted in a much smaller council of ministers, a prime minister, the hinder roger pucks and his brother president got to buy a raja pasco, remain in power. shank has been struggling with its worst economic crisis since independence, which has led to crippling power fuel and food shortages. let's go to michelle fernandez his life for us in colombo. so a new cabinet ministers, but the prime minister and the president remain the same. is this likely to satisfy protested, while on the face of it,

it doesn't really seem so because as we have all heard during the last couple of weeks there mean sort of rallying cry has been go to go home or roger boxes go home . the fact that there are no other roger boxes other than the president and his brother, the prime minister mind the roger properties quite telling they have a basically called to other brothers and a number of nephews from that cabinet. as they have with a lot of the old god, a lot of the old more senior faces are not are in this new cabinet. 17 are sort of new appointees out of which there are a handful of those who held portfolios before a one or 2 at the maxine faces. but the few who seem to have survived this cut seems to be got arbitrage. parks are loyalist now for the protesters. they have always sort of taken up. this cried that it should not be the old faces that they

are not going to sit down and negotiate. in fact, the rebuffed an attempt or an offer from the prime minister mine there are 2 bucks to sit down and talk to them. they said until such time that the government sits down. there can be no good, no negotiations. so the president as much as he's trying to bring in a sort of a new wave with new faces and sort of relatively junior members of parliament or he is going to face some pushback is sort of initial sort of reaction so far seem not to really be accepting of this and just to give you an idea, i mean the president houses down the road to the right, just maybe 200 meters away. this is as far as where being allowed to go. but when that's wearing and happened, it's happening under fairly tight security and reports that even some members of the cabinet that came in for the swearing and use different entrance roads. because

vastly the protesters are a few 100 meters down the other way. and they don't want to be seen coming in all done on the lot of security. but also if you're disturbing elements that we're hearing for i'm innocent, mind roger pox are real, all handed politics is not reported to be very happy with that sort of choice of the new cabinet. i did speak to a source in his office who told me that the cabinet is going ahead with the president's choices, but the prime minister is kind of largely out of the whole process that remains to be seen how they'll take up things in the coming days. in coming weeks, but the protesters are digging in. okay, thank you for that. michelle fernandez in colombo. tension is high in the alex or mos compound in the occupied east jerusalem as jewish worshippers gather at the western wall to mark the passover holiday. the arab israeli rom party has suspended its membership of israel's coalition government because of violence at the site in recent days. 20 palestinians were injured while being forcibly dispersed on sunday

. let's go to hurry, force it who is an occupied east, jerusalem for us. what is the situation there this morning? harry well, it is a quiet day than what we saw on friday, and even yesterday on, on sunday. nonetheless, that does bly, serious and continued tensions as you've been describing. what we have today is a major twice yearly prayer event at the western wall. it, it happens during passover, and that happens during another jewish holiday later in the year. and so thousands of people have been that during the course of the morning, what at the same time we have seen people of a certain age under 30, about 2 young men being restricted access from the alex. the most compound by is ready forces and those who had stayed in the mosque itself over nights the report it to be about a 100 of them. they've been prevented from coming out. so a concerted effort to try to keep people apart. but it's potentially, it's,

it's working so far or during the course of the morning. but there are questions as to what happens once things change later once the jewish visits to the most compound visits, usually carried out by right wing jews, settlers, religious nationalists there being about 11 of those that we've counted so far. once those come to an end in the next few minutes and the mosque is reopened, presumably could there be potential for confrontations between is ready forces and palestinians then and going forward into the next few days. these images of young men being prevented from entering during ramadan for these security purposes, the israeli se will that provokes the upset distress unrest potentially from palestinians as well. so far we are not getting to the kind of level of tension that we saw ahead of the war around the same time last year. but things despite

a relatively quiet morning by no means over. indeed. okay, how are you for watching the situation there for us and occupied east jerusalem? still ahead on al serra, all kinds of babylon. we look at how tourists enjoying iraq's cultural treasures once again. ah hello there. we've had some lovely weather across europe this weekend, and there's more of that to come as we start the new week, particularly across those central and western areas. but we think unsettled conditions continue to plague. the southeast corner and things are going to turn slightly unsettled for the north west. we've got rain rolling in to parts of island as well as britain, a lot of cloud around, but still some sunny spells coming through and warmth in places like london. now

for scandinavia, we've got high pressure in charge, bringing a lot of warmth to places like norway and sweden. if we have a look at the 3 day for stock, them have a look at this will be well above average on monday, with sunshine, lasting through to the mid week. for the south of this however, it is going to get wet for places like poland, a little bit wintry as well for the czech republic, and that ties up with wet and windy weather moving its way east. across the black sea. we got some wind warnings out for some of the greek islands as well as croatia . we are going to see that wet weather push its way across to turkey. but behind that from much of mediterranean, it's a fine and dry picture, lots of wounds coming through for italy and similar story for spain and portugal on monday. but we'll see the rain roll into spain. by the time we get to choose day. ah frank assessments, what are the political risks of branding russian oil and gas for western leaders?

pull sanctions on rosh. another jewish force informed opinions he's not abandoning to fight against yet is to resume india, going to be marketing from asia and from char clinical debate. could china actually helped in russia's invasion of the crate in depth analysis of the days, clint black lines inside story on al jazeera. oh, a welcome back. watching else is there a mind to thought helps, or is this our russia has carried out missile attacks and parts of west and something ukraine. 5 broken hip of 50 or so it's be several casualty.

and lanka, new cabinet ministers have been torn in 2 weeks down to the entire cabinet. resigned to come to government protests. the prime minister in the raja pucks on his brother president got the bio roger pump that remained in our hundreds of jewish worship as a gathering at the western war at the l. at the most compound mark, the level for today, tension is wholly off the weekend to violence against touches across ukraine of health services for easter sunday. despite the threat of russia's invasion, many of the countries, 1200000 roman catholics had been forced to flee their homes. others have remained and the war is dominating. thoughts and prayers tell stratford reports from the capital key. there is a cold silence before easter sunday service at this catholic church and keith

worship was neil and crossed themselves as they come in some take confession, while the congregation gathers many of the people here have family members and friends fighting in the east most never expected they would have to live through war. this is i see south, i see the other one is living through their own personal plane. and they know some of the people they know may not come home. and we're coming here to look for belief and hope because maybe there'll be nothing left ah, there are more than a 1000000 roman catholics. in this predominately orthodox christian country boxes of donated, food and clothing stacked along the aisles. ready for volunteers among the worshippers to distribute to those in need. father. pavlov. the scope sky

prepares to give communion. the congregation wait in line was early. civil need several only guess when the war started i started coming to the church more often because of the anxiety. when i hear the father's preaching, it gets easier. i find more faith than myself in our society, and our victory of them in a corner of the church stands, a moral of an army post with the ukrainian flag. recently, services of had to be held on the ground is the church crypt until a few days ago church services in recent weeks have been held here underground because of fear of potential russian shelling. now, despite the fact that russian forces have withdrawn from areas around kia, there is still great fear that that shelling could start. again. the head priest here says that he estimates up to 80 percent of the worshippers in this parish of

fled. since the war began. the priests resisted government prussia to close the church on february the 24th, when the russian army faded. last of those days were started. official stoled us, we had to close the church, but refused because we kept to support the people we have since helped evacuate children and the elderly from areas of the parish outside ski. the atmosphere in the charge has changed. since we started, people are more united and we help each other more. as a priest collects the money to go towards renovation of the church damaged by fire last year because without this place of worship, many of the people here would find living through war even harder than it already is. cha, stratford al jazeera keith. china's economy has beaten full costs in the 1st quarter of 2022, but figures show it's also at risk of a sharp slow down. in the next few months,

asians gross domestic product expanded 4.8 percent year on year more than expected . but the effect of the new curve 19 locked down on the war, ukraine could put pressure on the economy going forward. so j, u. c, should, i must be aware that domestic us an international environment becoming more complicated and uncertain. as we faced these challenges, we must follow the guidance of shipping for them. social doesn't change characteristics for a new era and fully implement the spirit of the center economic conference in the arrangements made by report of the work of a government. the must coordinate the efforts of 19 to response and social development make economic stability, our top priority empathy progress, while ensuring stability and put the task of 6 or shoring system safeguards front and center katrina, you have more from beijing. this figure doesn't really tell the full picture regarding the health of china's economy, because of course, we've had 2 major things that are really affecting affecting it at the moment. one is ukraine war and 2nd is the biggest corporate outbreak that china has faced since

the beginning of the year. and many analysts are saying that we're not really going to see the impact of those 2 things until the 2nd quarter. so what we do know is that this figure what that beat expectations for point 8 percent. a lot of that is the new factoring activity, especially in the 1st 2 months, as well as infrastructure spending. but what we had in march was the lockdown of some major cities across china financially crucial cities, including the commercial center of shanghai. look down to cross one joe, the manufacturing center of shin gin, tens of millions of people confined to the homes. so we really, analysts are expecting that the worst is yet to come unfortunately, and we all be getting to see hints of that in the data, although we've had strong performance in some areas. if you look closely, for example, at consumer spending, that's taken quite a dive. it's negative 3.5 percent. that's the lowest figure when it comes to

consumer spending of domestic consumption since july 2020. the 1st year of the pandemic and the jobless rate you're in, china also rose to 5.8 percent in march, which is the highest the job rate has been since may 2025 weighing is chief economist of hang thing bank in china. he says they all concerns about the sustainability of the up 10. well, the number has to be the market effect, asia, and by a very wide margin. so people do have fear that this may not be sustainable. and when you look at the breakdown of the data, it's quite obvious. there are some structural issues on the growth was bolstered by infrastructure, spending, manufacturing lessons and export on. but the weak spot is consumption. it actually turn negative growth in march and in many peoples as fact in the coming months. and the weakness in the consumer market will sustain, well, the growth in the 2nd quarter,

my slow down quite significantly on not so much from the ukraine war because the commodity price has somewhat stabilized. although still out there are high level by the cobra control, especially the repetitive pattern of the city locked down, has been the biggest challenge. when my look at a period of time in the 2nd quarter, that a few dozen of chinese cities could implement their lockdown measure simultaneously, which can be a big damage to transportation, production, consumption, and international shipping. and could be very big. 3 deaths linked to complications from coven 19 have been reported in shanghai. authorities have been ramping up assets to find the pandemic with inflatable labs of 200000 samples. a day of being tested, the city announced a 14 day lockdown on friday. the la number of people who have died from flooding

in south africa is rising. at least $443.00 of now died and thousands are still missing. marks struggling to keep up with the demands of the heaviest rain in 60 years. the disaster caused nearly $700000000.00 worth of damage. and sweden, at least 3 people have been injured after police. 5 warning shopped into a crowd of people during unrest in the southern city of nor violence has broken out the cross several cities of a danish far right groups that it tries to burn copies of the koran. danish swedish politician rasmus police done lead the anti immigration and anti islamic hotline movement in response. iran has some of the swedish and boy and cover has condemned what it calls an act of incitement. a tourism has been making a bit of a comeback in iraq despite years of war and the destruction of ancient archaeological sites, visitors,

and now returning to see the remaining cultural treasures and one destination proving populace the location that's long been known as the cradle of civilization . from babylon, mac made otherwise, he'd reports in the ancient city of babylon, tourists are trickling back. that follows the iraqi government, ending the needful, pre arrival visa from dozens of countries. this is a replica of babylon, as it's thought to have looked like in 600, be see little is left of the original structure. but tourists are fascinated by 4000 years of miss hopper to me as cultural heritage. a lot of people back in ireland don't even know that babylon is in iraq. they don't even know it's still a real place. you know? so it's so incredible to be able to come here. this is will tree means of the hanging gardens of babylon. one of the 7 wonders of the ancient war it. the

original and renowned as tara gate was shipped off to berlin by european archaeologists. at the beginning of the last century, archaeologists say numerous, his seroquel treasures are waiting to be discovered across iraq. here in this area, for instance, there are ancient ruins beneath these surrounding pol mcgrooves and villages there threatened by oil pipelines running through them, and encroachments by local residents. all was the cultural, half planned of ancient mis, super tamia. it's revered as the birth of the place of prophet abra harm and gained international attention following glass. he is a visit by the head of the catholic church. pop frances? yeah. i think even more from from my parents, they were, they were quite nervous. they were, they asked why you go into iraq and, and is going to be safe. and, but the people been so friendly, very welcoming. and so for my point, we, it's

a great country to with us. so zones of priceless artifacts have been looted or smuggled out of iraq. ancient term pills, palaces and tombs either destroyed by i sill or damage it under the watch of consecutive governments over bar alysia, fill happy, periodical. cultural tourism was blooming before the 2003 us live invasion. but we've recently received several western excavation missions that have helped a lot on discovering and protecting mini sites. they've also highlighted the importance of, or as the center for inter faith and destination for tourists from various backgrounds. a resurgence of tourism means creating new development projects and job opportunities for many here. i assad her for holl center rocky. these pieces, a hand crafted by young people who have no other jobs to do. so we count on the government to help bring to respect so that we can keep the business afloat or rp

a throw a shot in yoyo, and continue to maintain the immortal memory of ancient, more super tamia. even though much of its magnificence has been lost to decades of case and neglect my mod abdullah had l j 0 in babylon, city centrally rock. ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories. russia has carried out missile attacks and parts of western and southern ukraine for rockets hit the city of live, killing 6 people and wounding 8. hold the abdur. hamid has mo, from live, according to the mayor of living. ah, there were 5.